HAPPY EASTER: Millbrook photographer Jenn Austin-Driver has recently won over the heart of talk show host Ellen Degeneres with an Easter photo of a baby and a lamb. The photo was recently shown on Ellen and was posted on several of the TV show host's social media profiles.

It all started when baby Jaxon Hedrick had an Easter portrait done with an unusual choice of a lamb.

"We wanted to try something different. We had done bunnies before, so we wanted to do something new," Ms Austin- Driver says about the choice of animal model. "And our curious little lamb made quite the impression, obviously with Jaxon and as it seems the public as well!"

Baby Jaxon's mother Adele thought Ms Degeneres would enjoy the photo so she submitted it to her website. The TV host shared it on her Facebook page, Twitter account and Instagram profile, going as far as to say it was her "New favourite Easter photo."

The picture would later be featured on The Ellen Degeneres Show.

"I couldn't be happier that this photo has generated such a reaction from others," Ms Austin-Driver says. "It truly is an honour!"

-- by Aly Beach

PROUD SON: Ellie Steele, a retired registered dietician with the Peterborough Community Access Centre, was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal on Tuesday for her volunteer work with the Peterborough Celiac Association.

How do we know? Her proud son Troy shared the information so more people would find out.

Congratulations, Ellie.

HORACE THE LAUGHING DOG: A reader has offered us a toy dog that rolls and laughs when turned on, thinking we can use it in conjunction with some of the crazy things we hear at City Hall meetings.